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I am working with a client on a sales forecasting app, and part of the excercise is mgmnt-reporting and charting.
pls. see the following image: the two charts on the left side show Actual Sales vs. ...

Box plots are sometimes used to represent a range in a single value, but I am curious if a similar presentation would be useful in representing an overlaid column chart. By using the same color as the ...

I'm developing an application for ticket ordering system, for each and every task there is a ticket for you,and those tickets are assign to relevant employee, and for that particular task there is a ...

In many prototyping cases, I have to generate charts, graphs and all sorts of data visualizations. I'm looking for tools to easily and rapidly generate those.
Currently MS Excel does the job for me, ...

I am creating a website that will display data using Highcharts.
On any given chart, there are various different filters the user can apply to see different aspects of the underlying data (e.g. time ...

What kind of a visualization/chart should I use for showing all the ways you can choose from a set of items? (i.e., number of possible combinations)
Concretely, I am showing potential offspring from ...

I manage a website which displays the evolution of sport teams in their championships using line charts. See the image below with 2 examples for 2 sports. The X axis show the played matches (time), ...

Some background
I work as an independent consultant, and as such I use multiple 3rd party software to keep track of my billable hours, sent invoices, due taxes, bank mutations, etc. However, as with ...

I'm working on dashboard and researching different kind of graphs that could be used.
I couldn't find any information about usability/UX differences between line charts that are using straight (A) or ...

I am displaying a daily data feed in my app, i.e. one value per day.
The data is displayed in either a bar or line chart.
In the event that a data point is missing on a given day, I want to indicate ...

I have a matrix that looks like the following, and I want to make a chart out of it because the numbers are just too much to look at. What is the easiest way to digest this information? We are trying ...

First post here, but I'm really having trouble getting an idea of how to visualize a certain piece of data for a project.
Right now, we are trying to show a certain amount of activity on a given day ...

I have a bunch of data I would like to display in several static graphs. In this particular case, it's the amount of visits different parts of a website has throughout time, for analytics purposes.
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I am designing a line chart which displays a tooltip when the user hovers over the chart to show extra information. A working example of what I am currently using can be seen here.
I am interested in ...

I'm working on a new version of a data analysis for robotics competitions. Among other things, I'd like to make it easier to view complex match statistics that are collected on each robot. Currently ...

I have a realtime timeseries chart which should show a variety of values. To make it mor clear: It should contain values for a solar park. Therefore I have stuff like Voltage, Current, Power (absolute ...

I am trying to create a dashboard to be displayed in an office on a TV screen which allows staff to quickly see relevant statistics. For each statistic it needs to show the current value as well as a ...

I am working on a chart application and the user changes options many times to update the chart. Sometimes the updating may take few second.
(A) Should I hide it to avoid any misunderstanding about ...

I'm trying to design a visual representation of a child's sleep schedule for a given week.
I was thinking of making a chart with the time of day on the y-axis and the days of the week on the x-axis ...

I have a customer who asked me to provide a "Server Availability" chart for the last 24 hours that looks like this one:
Y represents hours (0 - 23); X represents minutes (0 - 59)
In this example you ...

I know this is hard to answer in general (i.e. not in the context of a specific application and user needs), but what evidence is there for or against autoscaling of axes on a chart in terms of user ...